Bonus:
Explanation: asking for a program to effectively remove duplicates gives 14 programs that do essentially the same (therefore, making them duplicates).
Relevant XKCD:
Why, it makes totally sense. One is done inefficiently, the next doesn’t have feature X, this one does something entirely different and that one i don’t like the programming language/approach.
“This one is just like the most popular one, but entirely rewritten in Rust!”
Nice. I actually wanted a program to find duplicates and tell me, without doing anything to them, so that I can make decisions on a case-by-case basis.
Now I found 14 duplicates out of which some might fit my case.
I always found the actual challenge to decide what to get rid of once the duplicates where found.
Some tools I tried would also ask file-by-file, which I found a bit useless for thousand of files. Yet, I cannot even express a set of rules to decide this in general, so I’m not blaming the tools.
In particular, with picture collections I also came to the conclusion that some redundancy is probably ok rather than accidentially deleting data that I duplicated on purpose and simply forgot why.
Also, it is important that the tool recognises if the whole directory tree has been duplicated. e.g. if you duplicate an installation folder.
Exactly, with things like music or pictures, there’s always that bit of doubt that makes it scary to actually delete anything…
